Your guide to impacting change and escaping ordinary. Tune in for honest discussions about entrepreneurship, self-development, and management.
Categories: Business, Education
Tags: business, creativity, development, entrepreneurship, escape room, honest, Management, relationships, self-development
As women, we are constantly comparing ourselves to others. But your life isn’t supposed to look like hers! Being your best self means standing firm in your decisions and always being willing to grow with a purpose. Amy and Abby get vulnerable and real with an honest look into the challenges and triumphs we all face. Every woman listening gets the opportunity to choose what life looks like for HERself.
Categories: Education
Tags: best self, Comparison, future, grow, honest, opportunity, purpose, real, Self-Improvement, vulnerable
BITE-SIZE PERSONAL STORIES OF SURVIVING LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCES: Hosted by Luke Colson and Kyle Wise, we feature weekly guests and explore extreme personal life changing experiences and the journey emotional and physical recovery. Each guest discusses their story of how their lives were turned upside down, by unexpected events. Stories like surviving a car crash, surviving abuse, being paralyzed in an accident, witnessing a crime.. and many more! Luke and Kyle will take an honest, raw, yet positive and hopeful approach, to really find out how these sudden events have effected our guests, and hear about the tools they use to overcome the subsequent struggle and adversity. We will focus on the journey to success and recovery, and hear stories of how our guests overcame trauma, and mental health challenges like ptsd, anxiety depression and phobias that have often lead to addiction, alcoholism, and disorders. While we will focus on the events themselves, and the lasting effects of these moments, our goal in this podcast is to concentrate on the positive journeys of resilience, recovery and hope that comes from these extraordinary stories. Join us for the ride of your life, and other peoples too! Why listen? We hope that our listeners will feel comfort, empowerment, strength and hope through this community of people and the stories we share. Everyone’s experiences are unique, but the circumstances around recovery and healing can be a shared and comforting journey. EMAIL: wtfmupodcast@gmail.com MUSIC by DeVyruss from Pixabay SPOTIFY: For reasons that no one at Spotify knows, our podcast does NOT play on the Spotify App from IOS devices. It works on every other platform, and even works on Spotify App from Android and works just fine on Spotify for Desktop. Spotify tell us they don’ t know how to fix it. We love our listeners and encourage you to find another way, and another platform, and we apologize, this one is out of our hands.
Categories: Health & Fitness, Society & Culture
Tags: adversity, Fear, Fun, honest, hope, humor, Light, raw, Recovery, strength, survival, trauma
The Milkman Made Me podcast hopes to deliver a fresh glass of perspective on the world around us. We want to bring joy, honesty, and encourage others to chase their dreams. The title of our podcast refers to our father, The Milkman, and often we talk about the values he taught us and how those shaped us into who we are today. Through this creative outlet we hope to form relationships, grow as human beings, and have fun all while we learn what shapes the culture around us all.
Categories: Comedy, Education, Society & Culture
Tags: Comedy, Culture, dreams, family, father, friends, goals, honest, interview, life, network, story
Living a life of faith, a life led by the truth of the Gospel, a life desiring to be more like Christ, can be frustrating, challenging, and confusing. Join me as we talk about faith and life, as we dig into scripture, we address topics and questions, all while continually questioning, evaluating, and challenging ourselves.
Categories: Religion & Spirituality
Tags: Authentic, Bible, christian, faith, God, Holy Spirit, honest, Humble, Jesus, real, scripture, women
A podcast dedicated to genre’s, sub-genre’s and time periods. http://halostrange.soniktruth.net All music was purchased. It is strongly advised to purchase great music. For review and discussion purposes only.
Categories: Music
Join Andy and guests as they provide a Fun & Honest look at Christian Living. Every episode contains curious questions & honest answers. All listeners welcome. Contact us with your own curious questions & constructive feedback at nakedgospelpodcast@gmail.com or via https://www.facebook.com/nakedgospelpodcast/ https://nakedgospelpodcast.podomatic.com/ http://open.spotify.com/show/4NPrVvymZVRXolYalFKCxI
Categories: Society & Culture
Tags: christian, Fun, honest, living, nakedgospel, nakedgospelpodcast
“Can I talk Now?” Is your source for open + honest conversations with everyday people. We will dig deep into personal stories, experiences, and downright raw moments in their lives. So come along for the adventure.Subscribe to my Podcast,”Can I Talk Now?!” Releases new episodes out every Wednesday. Be sure to Subscribe now www.https://canitalknow.buzzsprout.com. Also follow us on instagram. @canitalknowpodcast *Please Read Disclaimer:”Can I talk now is an uncensored platform for others to tell their stories. Can I talk Now does not endorse or any of the interviewers beliefs or values”*
Categories: Comedy, News, Society & Culture
Tags: conversations, friends, honest, Inspirational Podcasts, interviews, listening, Open, people, Podcast, Stories, talking, Topics
This is The Truth Flirts; a brutally honest podcast hosted by Mel B in partnership with dating app Badoo – the place to date honestly. Each week, Mel B will be joined by a panel of celebrity guests, including; Megan Barton Hanson, Daisy Lowe, Amy Hart, James Locke, Calum McSwiggan and many more to discuss the highs and lows of dating. Guests reveal their truthful opinions on topics from ghosting to gold diggers, politics to parenthood. Nothing is off limits.
Categories: Comedy, Society & Culture
Tags: badoo, celebrity, Comedy, dating, flirts, honest, lifestyle, Truth
A show that helps men live more honest and healthy lives.
Intro [00:00:00]
Picture yourself walking down the sidewalk. You’re heading home for dinner and you don’t want to be late, so you take out your phone to check the time. And in that split second, your foot catches on a break in the sidewalk. Your whole world starts to flip and by instinct you catch yourself before smashing your face on the ground. You get up, but your hands are pretty scraped up. You’re flustered and your heart is racing.
How would you feel in that moment? What would you do? What would be the very next thing you would do? Of course, everyone is different, but I believe you would respond in one of two ways: one which is a healthy response and one which is not.
Today, we’re going to explore two roads. One is the road of shame and the other is the road of change. And I want you to ask yourself which one you tend to take. The first step to walking a better road is recognizing the options available to you. So let’s jump in. You’re listening to the Free To Be Honest Podcast.
“The Uneven Path” [00:01:42]
I want to share a poem I wrote several months ago that helped me discover and think through these two roads, these two ways to interpret and process a moment where you look like a fool. I call it “The Uneven Path”.
Every day, I put my best face on. Take courage, try to look professional. Like, “Look at me, look how I’ve made it!” But I haven’t. You see, I don’t have it all together. Please, don’t be confused by the confusion I create.
Why is it so humiliating to stumble in public? Stumbling reveals the uneven ground, the obstacles so many trips over, but I’m worried that my stumbling through life won’t show that life is hard, but rather that I am hopeless, weak, incapable. Like the uneven ground isn’t to blame, but rather my lack of foresight. Like how could I have been so foolish?
But we’re all blind until we see. We are all trying until we succeed. I am not to blame. I am not to blame for moving with purpose through the shadows. And it is that very stumbling that unites the two of us in spirit and purpose.
When my balance is shaken and my hands scraped concrete like emergency landings, and I look around to see who’s watching, I have a choice.
My eyes swell with tears as they fixate on faces, looking for the laugh of my third grade bully to pour out of their open mouths. But my words wait. They wait for the me that sits on the bench beside the wildflowers. The me with eyes closed, feeling the breeze on my face and gently through my hair. The me that holds my third grade class photo in his hand rather than his heart, rather than his gnashed and broken teeth.
I have grown. From a boy with a forced smile posing for a photo, to a man in his thirties, smiling naturally, posing for no one, to a scuffed mess on the ground with a decision to make, a decision as to which me I will be in this moment.
And so I stand and say words that are simple, but not easy.
“Someone should really take care of that and even ground. And that someone should be me and you, for we are all susceptible to fall.”
The Road of Shame [00:05:07]
There’s two responses you can have after tripping on an uneven sidewalk, two directions to take: the road of shame and the road of change.
The road of shame looks like this. Immediately after tripping, you look around for anyone who might have seen you trip. It doesn’t matter who they are. A complete stranger who you’ve never seen before and will likely never see again. But you care what they think. You are afraid that they’ll laugh at you and you consider yourself a fool for tripping in the first place. You shouldn’t have been looking at your phone, you tell yourself. You feel like such an idiot.
Why do you respond like this? Why do you care what a complete stranger thinks or how they react? Why do you feel ashamed? It’s because this moment of tripping is a mirror moment. What do I mean by a mirror moment?
A mirror moment is what I call a situation that looks or feels very similar to a painful memory from your past and that elicits the same reaction in you that the original did because of its similarity. For me, tripping on the sidewalk and looking around to see if anyone laughs feels just like times in elementary school when kids would laugh at me after I made a mistake.
I think of the numerous times I played softball in PE class. I was not athletic and didn’t intend to be, I hated softball. So when it was my turn to go to bat, I inevitably struck out. But I didn’t stop trying. To be sure, there were kids that did, but I wasn’t one of them. Every time I went up to bat, I honestly tried to hit the ball. I wanted to succeed, but I still failed. And every time I did, I heard laughter behind me from kids mocking me about how ridiculous I looked trying to hit the ball. And from the kids who actually cared about the game, I got groans and sighs after each failure. Similar to walking down the street as an adult and tripping on the sidewalk. I look just as ridiculous trying to catch myself and keep my balance as I did swinging that bat. I should’ve seen the uneven sidewalk and avoided it, I tell myself, just as I should’ve been more capable at playing softball. If I was, I could have avoided this humiliation. I look around to see if anyone is laughing at me just like those kids were decades ago.
It’s a mirror moment. I’ve been laughed at in situations like this before, and so I’ve been conditioned to look for it now.
Ultimately I’m struggling with shame. In some sense, I feel like I deserve to be laughed at. I should’ve seen it coming, but I didn’t, so the laughter is warranted. I feel like I made a mistake. It’s my fault. I’m incapable. And I’m worth being laughed at despite how unpleasant it feels.
The Road of Change [00:08:41]
But what if it wasn’t a mistake on my part? What if I’m not to blame for my tripping? What if I’m not at fault because there’s no fault to be given? What if I’m just as likely as anyone to trip on this sidewalk? What if I tripped not because of a mistake I made or some deeply-rooted inability to handle life, but rather because something is wrong with the world around me?
If I saw it that way, then I may not feel any shame at all. I wouldn’t be focused on myself and my perceived flaws or emotional pain. And that would free up my focus for other things. I would be free to question the existence of this break in the sidewalk; question why it’s here, what caused it, why it hasn’t been fixed and what can be done about it now so that no one else trips on it like I just did.
This is the road of change. It’s a generative approach to the problem, one based on the truth of the current moment. It examines the world with curiosity and empathy. It creates new ideas. It’s a position of strength and potential. It’s a way of being that leads to change and a better world.
On the road of change, I don’t assume the problem is internal. I don’t assume that things are my fault. I don’t consciously or unconsciously pull up past hurts or a cruel view of myself to explain what happened. I look with clear eyes and try to see the situation for what it really is. The sidewalk is broken. It’s a hazard. Distracted or not, I’m not solely to blame for my tripping. There is an external problem in the world that contributed to my situation.
Now, should I have been paying more attention instead of looking at my phone? Perhaps. But on the road of change, my moment of distractedness is just that. It’s a moment. Nothing more. It’s not an indication of my incapability or worthlessness.
And because I’m not drowning in my shame, I can more easily access reserves of power within myself to affect the world around me. Maybe I can go buy some orange spray paint and mark the sidewalk so other people don’t trip, too. Maybe I can contact someone within the city government that manages the sidewalks and bring it to their attention.
But this strength to change the world is lost when shame gets involved. When we’re drowning in shame, there’s no strength to affect our environment and there’s no strength to find healing. There’s only pain, felt and refelt, over and over again. So not only do I suffer the same pain again, but the world misses out on the positive change I could bring about.
You may be thinking, “Okay, Andrew. I, I know I’m on the road of shame and I have been for a long time. How do I get off this road?” I’ve found that the fork in the road between shame and change splits at the junction of my perceived identity; what I believe about myself.
Do I believe that I’m strong and capable, as I truly am? Or do I see myself as those mean-spirited kids did on the softball field? Do I believe their laughter was warranted? Do I believe I deserve to be laughed at? Do I believe my identity is defined by my inability to play a sport or to walk down the sidewalk without tripping?
Or do I believe that I am here now in this moment with family that loved me and values that matter to me, with abilities that push me forward and a mind to discern truth, with memories of joyful moments and dreams of hard-won accomplishments?
You are not your mistakes. You are not what their laughter claims.
You walk on clouds above it all, driven by a heart fully alive, like a locomotive barreling and raging forward. It pulls both the weight of your failures and the far-heavier weight of your dreams upward through life. It’s destination? That wondrous place where you will see your dreams come to fruition and your failures sent out to pasture.
I wish I could tell you that choosing the better road of change is as simple as just choosing it, but that’s not what I’ve found. For me, it feels like a tall ridge runs between those two paths. It’s far easier to stay on the road of shame, for when you try to leave it, gravity pulls you back down toward that familiar pain.
But I can tell you that walking the road of change and leaving your shame behind is worth all the work in the world. It’s worth continuing to push against that ridge, to climb it’s steep slope. And the more you embrace who you really are, the more you’ll see that you were built to scale that wall.
Outro [00:15:44]
Thanks for tuning in! I hope you found this discussion helpful. If you’d like to be notified about new episodes when they release, you can sign up for the Free To Be Honest newsletter at FreeToBeHonest.com. In each of those, you’ll also get a behind-the-scenes look at how I create the podcast and an early look at an episode that I’m still working on.
You can also connect with me on Instagram at Andrew Pethoud. That’s P-E-T-H-O-U-D. Feel free to DM me. I would love to meet you and hear what you think of the show.
Categories: Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
Tags: christian, dad, emotional health, honest, Man, men, vulnerability
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Categories: Arts, Health & Fitness
Tags: Acting Industry, actors, Balls Out, chat, directors, discussion, honest, mental-health, performers
The podcast that doesn’t bullshit.
Categories: Comedy, Society & Culture
Tags: advice, chitchat, girl, girltalk, gossip, honest, ladies, love, popculture, real, realitytv, relationships, single, thirties
A simple podcast where I interview and conversate with real people with real life experiences.
Categories: Comedy, Education, News
Tags: Funny, honest, Unpredictable
Just some guys that love Jesus and have a lot of fun talking about it. Apologetics, games, comedy (well, attempted comedy) and advice.
Categories: News, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
Tags: 3, 99, apologetics, Ben, Bible, boova, Comedy, Dan, From, Funny, fust, guys, honest, hudson, humor, III, Iowa, Jesus, john, KTIA, live, men, mike, music, network, normal, path, real, The, Truth
Join Blaze + Sarah for candid conversations on their couch. In this podcast they riff and ask the important questions, like: What is time? Isn’t it weird that animals don’t know about holidays? And so much more. Oh, and they happen to be a couple. But who cares because at the end of the day, historians will probably still say they were roommates.
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Categories: Comedy
This podcast will address topics that people do not like to talk about publicly. I speak on topics you want to hear about but may be too timid to ask. I have expert guest address numerous questions and answers segments in relations to all sectors of our lives. I speak the truth with boldness and a lot of laughter. I hope you tune in to learn and laugh with me and continue to follow me along this journey!
Categories: Comedy, Society & Culture
Amazing stories from people in Recovery hosted by Aaron Laine. A unique perspective from those who struggled with drugs and changed their lives.
Categories: Education, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture
Tags: 96rock, aa, aa speaker, aaron laine, addict, addiction, alcoholics anonymous, amazing, celebrate recovery, Cincinnati, clean, clean and sober, cocaine, Comedy, crack, crazy, dobigthings, dope, epidemic, fentanyl, Funny, heroin, honest, hope, inspiration, inspirational, interview, lead, mental-health, Motivation, Motivational, motivational speaker, NA, na speaker, narcotics anonymous, ohio, opioid, Opioid Epidemic, party, real, recover, Recovery, recovery today, rock, russel brand, self help, sober, Sobriety, Speaker, Stories, success, westwood one, wild
The intention behind We Are The Unheard podcast is to provide the platform for everybody who has ever felt unheard. Each week Eve Horne will be bringing you unapologetic, open-hearted, honest conversations and stories. Eve aims to educate the world with love, to change perspectives and to change lives. To bring people together through the power of audio so that they can understand the life journeys others have had, listen with empathy and be less judgmental. We underestimate the power of kindness and their ability to help others. If we all try to understand someone else’s path or their journey or their experiences, we would learn so much more about ourselves along the way and become more compassionate and have more empathy. It is Eve’s mission to help people get their stories heard and share their experiences so that we can all learn a little more and become better human beings.
Categories: Education, Society & Culture
Tags: compassionate, diversity, educate, empathy, honest, intention, kindness, love, openhearted, perspectives, Stories, unapologetic, unheard
Living with bipolar disorder, Jarod Silva has no filter and embraces his mental illness. Focusing on rants, tangents, and personal stories, Jarod brings an interesting approach to podcasting. You will laugh, you will cry, you may even get upset… there’s no limit to what goes on here. It’s Jarod’s wonderful world of bipolar madness, and you’re invited.
This is the final upload to Bipolar Banter. The podcast isn’t going away but, I’m moving forward to a new podcast called “Dose of Dope.”
Make sure you subscribe to the new podcast on any and all platforms!
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/65HMTcnrHJZn0kylki7ps9?si=DlaQTEr9TxWUHfd-CkYVsw
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dose-of-dope/id1538384257
Categories: Comedy
Tags: Bipolar 1, California, Comedy, Controversial, depression, Funny, honest, improv, Mania, mental-health, Politics, real talk, Stories, Truth
Rooted is a series exploring journeys of faith, hope and love. Rooted is a production of Faith Community Church, in Santa Cruz, California. For more information about Faith Community Church, or to experience more stories of hope from the Rooted archives, please visit us online at santacruzfaith.org.
Categories: Religion & Spirituality
Tags: answers, Authentic, Compassion, explanation, faith, faith community church, grace, honest, justice, love, mp3, Podcast, questions, salvation, Truth